Kumkum

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Red vermilion powder; auspicious mark”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Sindhura — Vermilion, sindoor, auspicious red
• Mrigank — Moon, mark of a deer
• Shashi — Moon, the hare mark moon
• Nishan — Mark, sign; one who makes his mark
• Thilagam — Mark of beauty, ornament
• Tilak — Sacred mark on forehead, auspicious and ornamental

More girls' names of Bengali origin

• Meghna — The river Meghna; cloud-river of Bengal
• Shiuli — Night jasmine flower; fragrant autumn bloom
• Tanushree — One with a beautiful body; graceful woman
• Oishee — Divine, of God; belonging to the divine
• Doyel — The Oriental Magpie Robin; national bird of Bangladesh
• Rimjhim — Sound of light rain; pitter-patter of monsoon

Where this comes from

Kumkum has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.